 NEDAP News | Vol. 2 Issue 2 | February 2007
Welcome to the February 2007 edition of NEDAP News
NEDAP Kicks Off 10th Annual Workshop Series
NEDAP kicks off its 10th Annual Community Reinvestment Workshop Series on Friday, March 9, with the session, Emerging Issues in Predatory Home Sales & Mortgage Lending. The workshop will address refinancing, property flipping, and deed theft scams. Learn about "exotic" mortgages that have proliferated in New York City, and the debate that's brewing around mortgage "suitability" standards. Hear updates on state and federal legislation and local anti-predatory lending initiatives and resources. With guest speakers from South Brooklyn Legal Services and the Center for Responsible Lending (CLE Credit Awarded!).
Other upcoming sessions include:
- March 22 - Spotlight on the Debt Industry
- April 10 - High Cost of Credit in Low Income Communities
- May 3 - Immigrant Financial Justice Organizing
- May 22 - Resources for Women's Economic Independence
- June 12 - Community Development Financial Institutions: Current Issues
Click Here for more information and to register (required). Click here for the workshop series flyer.
 Join NEDAP for National Fair Lending Campaign Launch
Join us on March 6 for A Day on Debt - the official launch of Americans for Fairness in Lending (AFFIL) in New York City. AFFIL is a national campaign to raise awareness of abusive credit and lending practices, and to call for the re-regulation of the credit industry. The event will feature a panel discussion on eliminating lending abuses, which will include NEDAP Executive Director Sarah Ludwig, followed by an advance screening of Maxed Out, a provocative documentary that exposes predatory practices of the American credit industry.
The panel discussion will be held at Demos, 220 Fifth Avenue, at 12:30 pm. The screening of Maxed Out will be held at 6:30 p.m., in the Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, 21 West 64th Street. To RSVP, send an email to March6@Affil.org. For more information on these events or on AFFIL call 1.866.45.AFFIL or visit www.affil.org.
Community Training and Advocacy Roundup
In February, NEDAP:
- East Harlem Council for Human Services Senior Nutrition Center
- Project FIND's Senior Center
- Goddard Riverside Community Center
- Educated more than 300 community residents on how to avoid predatory mortgage lending practices, in sessions held at:
- Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration
- Brooklyn Community Board 16 Economic Development Committee
- New Testament Church of God in the North Bronx
- St. David's Episcopal Church in Cambria Heights, Queens
- Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Center
- Testified before the New York City Council's Consumer Affairs Committee on its proposed taxpayer bill of rights.
- Spoke to law students about credit access for low income communities, at Yale Law School's Rebellious Lawyering Conference.
NEDAP Updates
- NEDAP was awarded a Tactical Media grant from Manhattan Neighborhood Network, to expand our television production capacity. NEDAP will use the grant to take our TV show, On the Money, out of the studio and highlight community organizing campaigns around New York City.
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